Clothes-drier



UNITED STATES Patented February 2, 1.904.

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CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 751,265, dated February 2, i904.

' Application filed October 19, 1903IA Serial No. 177,670.V (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. CRossLEY, of New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have inventeda new and useful Clothes-Drier; andI do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the numerals of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, .and represent, in-

Figure 1, a view in side elevation of my improved clothes-drier; Fig. 2, a plan view thereof.

My invention relates to an improvement in clothes-driers of that class in which the clothes are suspended from endless cables which are caused to travel to facilitate hanging out and taking in the clothes, the object of my present invention being to produce a simple device adapted to accommodate a large quantity of clothes at one time and constructed with particular reference to convenience of operation. With these ends in view my inventionconsists in certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter def scribed, and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention "as herein shown my improved clothes-drier is located directly in front of a window 2 of a house 3,

the design being that in this arrangement of the device the user shall operate the device through the open window. To the outside of the house I attach at points on opposite sides of the window two brackets'iv 4:, receivingv the trunnions 5 of along drum 6, furnished at its opposite ends with grooved wheels '7 These wheels 7 receive endless cables 8,Which also run in corresponding grooved wheels 9,'v located at. the opposite ends of a correspond' ing drum 10, the vjournals 11 of which run in brackets 12, securedto the upper ends of posts 13, driven,we will say, into the back yard into which the window 2 opens. The two drums 6 and 10 are located in the same horizontal plane. At opposite points on the cables I attach a series of bail-like clothes-rods 14, which will be located at equal distances apart and occupy so much of the reach of the cables as may Fig 1.

.attached to them a wire clothes-guard 15,`

be contained between the drums, as shown in The same portions of the cables have which extends a little beyond the end clothesrods, as shown at the right hand in Fig. 2. This wire clothes-guard ru-ns over the drums, which support it at points between the cables. Its function is to prevent the clothes from blowing up and becoming entangled with the cables and with each other. For the operation of the cables I mount asprocket-wheell upon one of the trunnions 5 of the drum 6. Over this sprocket-wheel runs lchain 17, also running Over a smaller sprocket-'wheel18,

mounted in a bracket 19 and furnished with a handle 2 0, by means of which the cables and their attached clothes rods and guard may bel caused to travel toward or away from the window, according' to the wish'of the laundress.

In using the device the handle will be used to run the cables, so that the wire clothesguard and all of the clothes-rods will be uppermost, with the outermost clothes-rod within easy reach of the laundress. d This rod is then filled with clothes, which are attached to it by any ordinary clothesspins. The handle is then operated to move the clothes-rod in question outward and bring the succeeding clothesrod into reachyand so on until the rods have been filled and moved outward one by one .until they inallyoccupythe positions shown in Fig. 1.' To take in the clothes, the above operation is reversed.

Of courseA the size ofthe apparatus may be variedpas desired. The apparatus shown has seven clothes-rods, and when it is considered that each of these rods will be siX feet in length it will be seen that the capacity of the device islarge. Y

Although, as herein shown,the`device is arranged to be operated through an open win-` dow, it is apparent that it may be arranged lin any other convenient way-as, for instance, to beoperated from the back stoop or porch of a house.

I would have it understood that I do not .limit myself to the exact construction shown and described, but hold myself at liberty to make such departures therefrom as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

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Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a clothesdrier, the combination with two drums, of cables running over the same, clothes-rods attached to the cables, and a wire clothes-guard also attached to the cables and extending over the clothes-rods.

Q. In a clothes-drier, the combination with two drums, of grooved wheels located at the ends thereof, endless cables running over these wheels, tiansversely-arranged bail-like clothes-rods attached to thecablcaand a wirecloth clothes-guard attached to the cables, running over the drums and arranged to extend over the clothes-rods.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing' witnesses.

CHARLES C. CROSSLEY.

fitncssesz A. W. W ELTON, M. W. HALL. 

